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Variation in a treatment’s causal effect across people, groups, settings, or levels of exposure.
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Name variation in a program’s causal impact across cases.Use in analysis when one average treatment effect may hide meaningful differences across people or settings.
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- treatment effect heterogeneity across groups
- estimate heterogeneous effects
- individual treatment effects
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The team estimated treatment effect heterogeneity by age and prior experience.
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This refers to variation in causal effects, not merely different outcomes between groups; the comparison needs a credible treatment-effect design.
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